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Apache Projects are the Justice League of Scalability

In this post I will define what I believe to be the most important projects within the Apache Projects for building scalable web sites and generally managing...

0 replies - 4337 views - 08/28/12 by Phil Whelan in Articles

Password Encryption -- Short Answer: Don't.

First, read this.    Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger. There are numerous important lessons in this article....

1 replies - 11972 views - 08/28/12 by Steven Lott in Articles

How MySQL Can Finally Kick Some MongoDB ****

If you have followed, or have tried to follow, my different attempts at getting Key-Value Store, in this case represented by MongoDB, from MySQL on a...

0 replies - 6585 views - 08/27/12 by Anders Karlsson in Articles

Evolutionary and Revolutionary Clouds

Now that we are a couple of years into the great cloud journey is it pretty clear that the big bang theory of cloud conversion is ain't...

1 replies - 2411 views - 08/27/12 by Chris Keene in Articles

Blind Dating for Geeks: Questions Candidates Should Ask (and When to Ask Them) During Interviews

After a few ‘Questions Candidates Ask In Interviews’ themed articles appeared in my Twitter stream, I was reminded of an article I wrote two years ago...

0 replies - 2498 views - 08/27/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

DZone Startup Series: Native Mobile Apps in Java With Codename One

The DZone Startup Series focuses on companies that are using Java at the core of their to power their startup. Want to find out what drives these startups, and...

0 replies - 2820 views - 08/26/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

What’s Your Geek Number? My Points System To Rate Software Engineers (Without a Full Technical Interview)

The ability to quickly and accurately rate the ability of software engineers after reading a résumé and conducting a relatively brief screening (as...

2 replies - 3960 views - 08/26/12 by Dave Fecak in Articles

Recommended Book: Real World Java EE Night Hacks by Adam Bien

Real World Java EE Night Hacks – Dissecting the Business Tier, Adam Bien, 2011, ISBN 9780557078325. I highly recommend this very thin and...

0 replies - 4830 views - 08/26/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

The Right Way for Cloud Apps to Go Mobile

Let’s assume you have an enterprise application and want to provide a good mobile experience for it. Conventional wisdom says that...

0 replies - 2970 views - 08/26/12 by Alex Neihaus in Articles

Creativity and Innovation at Work

This blog article is about innovation and creativity - what they are and how it can be applied at work and in personal life. The article also...

0 replies - 2479 views - 08/25/12 by Nishant Chandra in Articles

You're Writing the Wrong Software – You Never Know What Users Want Until You Ask Them

Too often companies and IT departments believe that they know what software they should create. However users often need and want something different than...

0 replies - 1739 views - 08/24/12 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Java Memes Which Refuse to Die

Also titled; My pet hates in Java coding. There are a number of Java memes which annoy me, partly because they were always a bad idea, but mostly because...

2 replies - 18786 views - 08/23/12 by Peter Lawrey in Articles

A Note On Null Pointers

It’s the second time in a few weeks that I have read something along the lines of: In a year at foursquare, I’ve...

4 replies - 3982 views - 08/22/12 by Cedric Beust in Articles

Best Practices to Make Life Easier for the Programmer

Writing code has never been easy.Well, let me re-phrase that: Writing readable code has never been easy.Many programmers work on their code alone. They define...

0 replies - 11446 views - 08/22/12 by Kristiono Setyadi in Articles

Performance "Tuning": Running in 1/100th the Time

For the 757 Python Meetup group, someone proposed looking at some Python code they had which was slow.  The code implemented a variation on the Elo chess...

0 replies - 3573 views - 08/21/12 by Steven Lott in Articles